Monika Samaan ... her family has been awarded $8 million. Photo: Picture courtesy of NBN News

Mr Vlahakis said last week that KFC should accept the court's decision.

"KFC chose to put Monika and her family through a court hearing over several weeks, which they adjourned twice so that the process so far has taken seven years since she sustained her injuries," he said.

"KFC of course got a completely fair hearing and were represented by a large team of lawyers from a multi-national firm and their own in-house legal team.

"Monika is represented by a sole practitioner law firm and the family has virtually no resources other than their love for one another, their courage and their belief in themselves and their case."

During a four-week trial in 2010, Monika's father Amanwial Samaan told the court he and his wife Hanna, son Abanou and Monika all fell ill with vomiting and diarrhoea after sharing the Twister.

Unlike Monika, who was in a coma for six months and in hospital for seven, they recovered.

Monika took the court action through her father.

KFC's lawyer, Ian Barker, QC, argued during the trial that there "never was a shared Twister" because there was no sales data to prove the family purchased it.

"You did not tell anyone at the hospital, when you were there between October 27 and 29, that you had shared a KFC Twister that Monday," Mr Barker said in court in July 2010.